Anomalous
- We're thinking about the SEAFLOOR and its vastness and sifting through POP cans, dolphin teeth, plastic bags, and then sea grass and SUNKEN boats.
- Under the water we see the shapes, SOME of them are ROUND, some of them are like marshmallows, and they leave HOLES, we're trying to hear.
- Oh yes, HERE are our EARS!
- We're thinking about YOU and that thing you WROTE one time and how you showed it to us and we blushed.
- Sounds are now coming in under the water. They are wavery. They are anomalous.
- They are anomalous like the deep fish, and SCRAPS of paper underwater advertising things from another dimension and time.
- We've known each other since second grade.
- If we can get some of this DOWN before the DRIFT.
Anomalous Press launched in March of 2011 as a non-profit press dedicated to the diffusion of writing in the forms it can take. Its backbone is an editorial collective from different backgrounds and geographies that keep an eye out for compelling projects that, in any number of ways, challenge expectations of what writing and reading should be.
At the time of its launch, Anomalous is an online publication, available in both visual and audio forms on various platforms. It has its sights set on publishing chapbooks, advancing audio forms and creation, and supporting all sorts of alternative realities of the near future.
Erica Mena, Founding Editor, writes poetry, and translates, and makes hand-made books, and sometimes wishes she were braver. She moves more often than once a year, but never without her growing collection of mythical animals. She has been called Alluringly Short.
Sara Gilmore was born in Minnesota. She translates and works on projects and likes the cryptic. She sends her greetings.
Katie Hargrave is an artist, educator, writer, historian. She spends almost too much time researching obscure bits of America's past, dreaming about the transcendentalists, and planning her imaginary garden. More at http://katiehargrave.us
David Johnson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. He writes poetry. He's slightly disappointed with the 21st Century and is still waiting for Victrolas to come back into fashion. He also doesn't drive.
Rachel Trousdale awoke one morning to discover she was a part of the brilliant plot known to you all as Anomalous Press. She still isn’t sure how this happened. This California girl lives with her reformed surfer boy in a cottage by the sea with a stubby little dog who cheerfully rules the entire roost like the banana-stealing diva starlet that she is.
Shannon Walsh is currently without a genie to fulfill her many wishes. She writes poetry and reads widely and falls in love with all sorts of things she once feared, like the ocean floor and being alone and you, especially you.
Matt Landry, aka the digitizer, aka protector-of-the-current-moment, teaches media arts and is the Anomalous Tech Consultant. He has managed computer networks and performed political street theater.
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